MiguelPollTest

 exists solely to demonstrate the range of GoogleForms polling ability. It does not hope to explain all the options that are possible. There are definitely intermediate stylings between and.

Also, expect no discussion here of whether you can require certain questions to be answered (you can), or whether you can check that responses are valid in a free-form polling situation (which, again, you can), or whether you can put some safeguards in place against people voting more than once (you can, but they're not any more perfect than Wikia's extension).

In short, there are myriad options for Google polls — and this document does nothing to walk you through them all. It exists merely to show off core voting functionality on a simple "pick one of these" kind of poll.

Basic
Here's a Google poll with checkboxes at its core. Nothing terribly fancy here, but all these elements can be styled: borders, fonts, change from radial button to checkbox, background color. We could even create a grid of trailers over each choice so people could refresh their memories — if, like me, they remember games but not game names.

We can change anything you require, but the important point at this juncture is simply to see that this core works in wikiamobile, Hg, and Oasis, and that all votes are aggregated to the same Google Doc.

Also, when you submit, you get a Wikia-themed "thank you". Which is nice. :)

MiguelPollTest

Fancy
Here's the embeddable version, so in some ways this is the prettiest-but-easiest version. It's totally scaleable, so we could throw it in the right rail or run two polls side-by-side or whatever. Best of all, it's automatically wikiamobile compatible, and it scales down very nicely for iPads — even iPad minis at portrait orientation. It's quite ruggedly device-independent. And we have good, if not absolute, control over its elements. We can change font family, font color, font size (though not to precise, numerical sizes), and don't have to worry about font licensing. Granted, we don't have access to Design's favorite GalaxiePolaris family, but I still think it's possible to come up with attractive font combos.

We have no ability, naturally, to remove the Google logo at the bottom, but it's unobtrusive, and, I think, a small price to pay for how easy this is to put together.

Note that on submit, you get the same thank you message as you saw in the earlier section, but, since it's styled the same way as the poll itself, it feels of a piece.

Oh, one last cool thing: reload the page several times and look at the options. They randomise on each page load! So we're not prejudicing our audience simply by the way in which we happen to have listed the options!

MiguelTestIframe